Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

he was not a natural chef and had to concentrate on the pan."You know what he said when I told him?""No?" He had to stir that in. He should go get a few moreshoots of onion with her here."This was the second worst news he'd gotten today.""The signals coming from the objects impacting our homeworlds would be the worst in that case.""You got it." She leaned forward over her elbows andsniffed toward the little fireplace where they did theircooking. He was still thinking in 'we' wasn't he? Desa wasstill his partner and Ava his variety in his mind. He had toovercome that, especially if she was going to be single. "Youlike yoolin also I see.""You have yoolin in your cooking?" he asked."Oregano's close enough," she said."So what do you make of the fact that he's picking upsignals from the impactors?" Alan asked, once all he had todo was stir."That the impactors are guided, I think we knew thatalready, and that if these devices are Brazilian, they possess alot of science that the home worlds either didn't know about,or didn't want to tell us about.""Why wouldn't they tell us?" Alan asked."They haven't told us anything yet. You can't reallybelieve progress stood still in the two hundred years we weregone? We've been told none of it.”“They sent those quantum mechanics texts that Thom fell70